E Ink the company best known for the e-paper display on your Kindle e-reader is making a serious play in China. The company is leveraging their Transcend Optronics subsidiary, which has doing business in China since 2002. The two sides have just signed a deal with Dalian DKE to bring down the manufacturing costs of e-paper in China.
Dalian DKE has already developed LCD panels and e-paper applications for industrial displays, smart power meters, smart labels and home-automating devices. E Ink will lend the assist with their technical knowledge and help DKE develop e-paper products and DKE will use its STN (super-twisted nematic)-TFT manufacturing equipment to produce segmented e-paper modules which will be more competitive in price than e-paper modules based on active matrix TFT backplanes. DKE will also promote STN-based e-paper modules in place of STN-LCD displays.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
